Don't eat your own head

We often feel that others are responsible for our miseries.

Be it our archenemy, Instagram’s algorithm, our parents “not getting us,” plans not going the way we wanted and I could go on but won’t, cause you get the picture.

While all of the above and more definitely play an important role in contributing to our miseries, the only person giving situations much importance to ruin our lives is us.

We do a plenty good job of eating our own heads, overthinking, rationalising things that should never been put to the test of logic in the first place and we stay miserable.

Ahem…I know she looks very pretty, even while chomping on her head. But in real life we don’t look this fascinating when we are brooding.

Being a person who has to don multiple hats in life, I realised this brooding is not helping my time management skills.

So, I devised an easy way to help steer clear of commotion, drama, and overthinking.

Today, I am going to share it with you cause you cannot be a good marketer or anything with a potato’s focus.

1. When anything happens. See it as an event (yeah like the one on Google Analytics) a situation that is simply playing out. Whether someone is saying something, your plan is going out of the window. Anything.

2. Just remember:

   2.1 This is not personal

   2.2 Don’t do anything you can’t fix later

   2.3 You are probably reading too much into it

3. Yes, talk in You’s. As if you are hearing it from someone else. By the time you finish saying this to yourself and breathing deeply thrice, the bone of contention that was hanging mid-air falls with a thud.

Silence can be a more powerful weapon than saying something back. In that moment of silence heal yourself.

This is just something I do that works for me. It might or might not work for you, but there’s no harm in giving it a try.

Marketers and writers do a crappy job when they are dealing with stunted creativity that comes from overthinking and brooding.

Free yourself from it. And yes, this applies to everyone, marketer or not.

Until next time…

Cheers,

Proma